(NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon Studios announced today that it has greenlit a
straight-to-series order for Utopia, a nine-episode series from
award-winning Gillian
Flynn, the best-selling author and screenwriter of Golden Globe
nominated Gone Girl and HBO’s highly anticipated Sharp Objects.Flynn has also inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios across
television, marking Utopia as the first project. Utopia
will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries
and territories.

Utopia is based on the British series of the same name written by
Dennis Kelly. The series is a co-production between Endemol Shine North
America and Kudos, an Endemol Shine Group UK production studio, and
Amazon Studios.

A group of young adults, who meet online, are mercilessly hunted by a
shadowy deep state organization after they come in to possession of a
near mythical cult underground graphic novel – they discover the
conspiracy theories in the comic’s pages may actually be real and are
forced in to the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the
world.

“We are huge fans of Gillian Flynn’s electrifying work,” said Nick Hall,
Head of Alternative Series for Amazon Studios. “She crafts stories that
hold her audience in a constant state of suspense and subverts the
expectations behind her characters. She will deliver Prime Video members
a series they won’t forget, and Utopia’s relevance is sure to
connect with viewers around the globe.”

“Utopia is pure creative catnip to me. Dennis Kelly’s show blew
my mind, and he has been so incredibly generous in letting me crack open
his world and play around in it and make it my own weird, wild place. Utopia
is all about exploring resonant issues within dark, twisted
storytelling—it's a series that's urgent and current and a little
holy-crap!, but a hell of a lot of a fun,” said Gillian Flynn.

Diederick Santer, CEO of Kudos said; “Dennis Kelly and the team at Kudos
created a unique, dark and gripping British thriller, and we are
incredibly excited that it has been so brilliantly reimagined by Gillian
Flynn for a new global audience.”

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